Film Reflection 17

April 20th 2009

This lesson, Clare and I worked very productively, and we managed to work fast and got a lot of things planned out and modified. After capturing the footage from last lesson and re-capturing the scenes that were accidentally deleted, Clare and I were finally able to start editing and sorting all the clips together. I managed to get everything in place and cut off some parts of the clips. After that we went to www.myvideocompetition.com and went through some of the music that was available for download. We listened to all of the tracks to find out with one suited our videos the best, and we each chose a few for consideration. After discussing and looking at our briefly edited videos, we both decided on one of the tracks. The track that I choice was called "take your time". I thought the track sounded very fun and childish, which suited my video, because instead of making a serious video on Illegal Camcording, I wanted it to be a more humorous. I downloaded "take your time" and imported it to my video. I realized that the track was more than 1 minute long, so I needed to decide on which part of it I needed to cut off. I decided to stick with the beginning of the song and cut off the rest of the it when it went up to 32 seconds. I included the extra 2 seconds in order to give a little space for my short credits after the video. After importing the track, I briefly shifted many of the clips around in order for them to match the rhythm of the song. I watched the entire video and realized that the front scene was too dark, even though the scene is suppose to be located in a cinema, which is obviously dark before the movie starts showing, I decided to add or modify the color or brightness of the scene in order for it to be brighter and easy to see. I used the effect "edit brightness and contrast" to the scene and adjusted it so that it would be easier to see, which worked out in the end. After watching the video, I also realized that the jail scene at the end was very badly taken, and I realized I needed to take it again because the camera was very unstable and shaky, due to the fact that there were no tripods left when we captured the clip. After that I watched the entire video again, at the end of the video I looked at the time and realized that the whole video was about 1 minute long when we were required to make a 30 second video. I panicked because I needed to cut about half of my entire video. Clare and I discussed about which clips needed to be shorten. We then cut many of the scenes that weren't that important, and fast forwarded them which turned out good. The video was now 23 seconds long, which meant that I sill had space to add in the jail scene (which needed to be retaken), and also space for the banner (which includes dialogue) and short credit at the end. My goal for next lesson will be to re-take the jail scene and include a banner in my video about the consequences and awards for Illegal Camcording. I would also needed to include subtitles and include a short credit at end. My general goal is to complete the video after next lesson, also making sure that it would succeed 30 seconds. Overall, I thought this lesson was useful, I was able to do a lot and my video developped very quickly.